Question about WHS Drive Failure

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Limp Gawd
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Hello all, seeing as there's a lot of WHS users on here I thought i'd fire off a question

Say I have a WHS, with a couple of drives in the storage pool. I set up a share for videos, and the share is very large and therefore spans several drives. What happens if one of these drives fails, assuming duplication is off.

My questions are:
Do I lose the data on just that particular drive, or the whole share/pool?
Can I see what i've lost?

Cheers in advance
Ben
 
Anything that is not duplicated runs without any protection, i would assume.
Though i don't know WHS, i'm sure others can inform you of this.

Generally, the idea is that you select to duplicate only the stuff you really care about (personal photos, documents, etc). That stuff usually isn't very big anyways.
 
Yeah I understand that much, i'm going to duplicated my documents, pictures etc, but it's the unduplicated stuff i'm worried about. Basically what i'm trying to do is minimise the amount of DVDs I have to re-rip, etc.
 
You Will loose the data that is on the particular drive that fails.....meaning you will not loose the entire share, only the data the is not duplicated that resides on the failed drive.

I myself wish that WHS had an option to allow you to choose what data goes to what drive in a selected priority fashion.
 
Unless he spanned a volume across multiple drives. If a drive within a spanned volume fails, the entire volume goes down!
 
Unless he spanned a volume across multiple drives. If a drive within a spanned volume fails, the entire volume goes down!

I'm not sure if it would be or not. I mean I understand how it works outside of WHS with volumes etc, but i'm new to the WHS storage pool concept. Say if I just set up a share, is that a spanned volume? Can the share be larger than the size of 1 drive?
 
Unless he spanned a volume across multiple drives. If a drive within a spanned volume fails, the entire volume goes down!

This does not apply to WHS.


If you have a drive die on WHS, only the data on that failed drive will be missing, assuming it was not duplicated somewhere else.

You will not lose the whole share.
 
This does not apply to WHS.


If you have a drive die on WHS, only the data on that failed drive will be missing, assuming it was not duplicated somewhere else.

You will not lose the whole share.

I assume that is as long as you leave DE enabled? Once you disable DE and create a spanned volume it would still apply!?!
 
I assume that is as long as you leave DE enabled? Once you disable DE and create a spanned volume it would still apply!?!


Right but why on earth would someone create a spanned volume in WHS?
And the question that was asked was about the WHS data pool...not spanned volumes:)
 
Cheers for the advice guys, it's greatly appreciated, and for treadstone for confusing me horribly in the process :p
 
Cheers for the advice guys, it's greatly appreciated, and for treadstone for confusing me horribly in the process :p

LOL sorry, didn't mean to confuse you, just wanted to make sure it wasn't a spanned volume :)
 
Yeah I find it is best to just duplicate everything, disk space is so cheap now, and I'm not positive on this, but I think if you DO lose data on WHS, it has to do a bunch of rebuilding if you actually lose data to verify that the file is gone and rebuild its internal database. With WHS and full duplication turned on on everything, I have even pulled a drive that I wanted to sell out of the system without even removing it in the software (bad practice I know, but I didn't have time to remove the drive properly) I had no ill effects, and it made me more comfortable that my data is safe on WHS.
 
Unless he spanned a volume across multiple drives. If a drive within a spanned volume fails, the entire volume goes down!

I have no idea where you are coming from when it applies to WHS and duplication. You lose a drive with duplication on the folders you want protected. You just remove the bad drive. and put in a good one. You lose nothing. No dup on the folder you deem important. Data may be gone..

That simple.
 
I have no idea where you are coming from when it applies to WHS and duplication. You lose a drive with duplication on the folders you want protected. You just remove the bad drive. and put in a good one. You lose nothing. No dup on the folder you deem important. Data may be gone..

That simple.

Absolutely true, I should have worded that a bit different. I was referring to a spanned volume without WHS duplication.
 
Ah ok. I guess in some ways if some would agree it is almost a spanned volume but with tolerance ? May not be the best technical way to explain it. I will say it has saved my bacon before.
 
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